After the three armed forces presented the flags, Zhu Youzhen made another speech on the importance of military flags to an army.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen hoped that his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Army would be an army with a soul, and through a series of methods such as slogans and military flags, every officer and soldier would know what their purpose was in joining the Guards.

Of course, spiritual encouragement alone is not enough, although Zhu Youzhen said that joining the Guards Army was not for promotion and wealth, regardless of personal life and death.

But as long as it's human, it has to be profitable.

Zhu You's inspector brought up boxes of silver dollars, and he and the commander-in-chief and governors of the various armies, as well as the officials of the Generalissimo's Palace, distributed the silver to the officers and soldiers.

Being a soldier also requires material support, especially in this era, many times the level of morale depends on how much silver you give.

Zhu Youzhen will not be stingy in this regard, and only when the soldiers are rich in money can they better make them strictly observe discipline and do nothing against the people's property and public property.

According to Zhu Youzhen, this is called the year-end bonus, which is the ardent expectation and New Year's blessing of the people of the world for the Guards.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Youzhen should personally distribute it, so as to collect the hearts of the three armies.

Every member came to lead the ring, and Zhu Youzhen would pat him on the shoulder when he stuffed the silver dollar wrapped in red paper into his hand.

None of the officers and soldiers of the Guards expected that the high-ranking king would be so approachable, and they naturally admired it even more in their hearts.

Looking at these officers and soldiers who were holding Chongzhen's fourteen-type firearms, or scimitars, spears, or birds, they were all in high spirits and their faces were extremely excited.

Zhu Youzhen was very pleased, he didn't believe that he would let the Qing army easily capture Jiangnan with this 450,000 army.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, I decided to give you a holiday, from the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month to the seventh day of the first lunar month, you can go home to see your parents, after all, I don't know if you can see you again next year, if you can't go home, go to Nanjing to have a look, go to Suzhou to have a look, you can also come to the Forbidden City to find me, Li Ruolian, you are not allowed to stop them!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, the officers and men in front of him cheered, and the months-long training was indeed very exhausting for them, and when they heard that they were going to take a 10-day long vacation, they were naturally excited.

"Decree Jin Yiwei Commander Wu Mengming, during the vacation of the Guards, be sure to be strictly vigilant, in addition, each army arranges, every day each army must have a corps on duty to garrison, beware that once the Qing army takes advantage of this surprise attack, Zhu Zhaoming's side can also have a mobile force!"

After Zhu Youzhen's order, he ordered to continue training.

The officers and men of the 150,000 A battalion began to be brought for training by their respective junior officers.

Naturally, the infantry battalion must first familiarize itself with the flintlock pistol, and the officers of the infantry battalion have already gone to the ordnance station to observe the operation process of the Chongzhen 14-type musket.

The crackling live ammunition shot frightened the egrets on Hongze Lake to fly in flocks.

The cavalry battalion, on the other hand, did not begin to train on horseback, but under the leadership of the old cavalrymen, they fed their horses fodder, brushed their hairs, and snuggled up to each other.

According to the old cavalry, this is to first cultivate feelings with their respective horses, only in this way can the horses have feelings for people, and then they can cooperate with each other like comrades on the battlefield.

Later, the horses will be trained to cross the fire circle, wade through the blood, and simulate the battlefield rush.

Zhu Youzhen naturally won't grasp these details, and leave everything to Zhou Yuji, after all, he is a veteran of the border army who has fought against the cavalry of the Qing army.

Zhu Youzhen is now worried about the supply of horses for the cavalry battalion, and now Shandong is still in his own hands, and there is still a supply of horses, but if Shandong is lost next year, it will be difficult for Zhu Youzhen to find land to raise war horses, and the water and soil in the south are obviously not suitable for raising horses, especially war horses.

The artillery battalion began to tentatively fire shells with the light door and the rangefinder, and from time to time there was the sound of artillery in the field of Nuoda, some of them were hit by shouting loudly, and some of them were not hit by laughter.

At the beginning, everyone was still quite enthusiastic, and even began to work overtime during the five-day training of various arms, and with the help of the Portuguese soldiers invited by Zhu Youzhen, they put out the tactical training of spears and musket cavalry.

The cavalry, musket infantry and spears are reasonably matched into a mixed class of troops with strong combat effectiveness, in this regard, the Francophone is the so-called Spain is more experienced, and the Ming Dynasty is no stranger to this, after all, this kind of tactical cooperation of mixed arms has been there since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Watching the assassination of the spearmen and the neat firing of the musketeers, as well as the surprise and outflanking of the cavalry, Zhu Youzhen was very pleased, perhaps the officers and soldiers of the Guards at this time were still relatively unfamiliar with this tactic, but only repeated training day after day, once the inertia was developed and the discipline was strict, it would not be difficult to form a strong combat effectiveness.

Zhu Youzhen's greatest emphasis was on the discipline of the Guards, deserters, old habits of looting people's property and perverting the law for bribes, and those who defiled the people's daughters or even just molested were ordered by Zhu Youzhen to have their heads cut off and hung on the flagpole of the school yard, and there were many senior officers at the command and envoy level.

The Generalissimo's Office newly established the General Military Judicial Office, which was directly managed by He Xin, and each army, as well as each corps and battalion, had its own military judicial battalion, which was presided over by the governors of each army.

Although these military judges participated in the training like other officers and soldiers, they all wore armbands embroidered with the word "military law" on their arms, and these people were all old-fashioned and strict people selected from the army or the brocade guards, and they were not at all merciful, and if anyone violated the rules, regardless of their rank, they were first confined and then punished according to the regulations on the violation of discipline by the guards.

Zhu Youzhen hoped that in this way, the Guards could truly become a well-disciplined iron army, so that it could have some of the characteristics of a modern and even modern army, and that the collapse rate should be completely superior to that of any army in the present era.

From the competition of duets to the great fighting contest of various armies every five days, what Zhu Youzhen wants to cultivate is the collective fighting spirit of all armies, and he does not want his main force to give up lightly, and he wants them to regard the honor of the army as more important than life.

Because the commander-in-chief of the War Department, Zhou Yuji, announced that it was a noon vacation on the 27th of the lunar month.

On the morning of the 27th of the lunar month, all the officers and men who had been enthusiastic about training in the past were very listless at this time, and many people looked at the big drums on the arrow tower from time to time, waiting for the arrival of noon.

"It can be seen that the military spirit is gone this morning, Your Majesty, why don't you give everyone a holiday in the morning?"

"No, the military order can't be changed, noon is noon!"

Zhu Youzhen also had an unkind time, and when noon came, he personally went up to the arrow tower and beat the drum: "Sons, go home!" ”

There was a cheer below, some people began to hug each other, some took off their military hats, and some people held their horses for a long time.